Research Associate 

Justin Gregg is currently a doctoral student at the School of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin in Dublin Ireland. He has been a research associate with DCP since 2004, assisting with data collection on Bimini for 2004 and leading the field research on Mikura Island for the 2005, 2006 and 2007field seasons. Justin is originally from Vermont, but has lived many years abroad including one year in Sweden, one in the Netherlands and five in Ireland. Justin is currently living in the Netherlands together with his wife Ranke - a "stunningly attractive multi-talented lecturer at Utrecht University" (according to Justin). Justin obtained a BA in linguistics from the University of Vermont in 1998 and studied Sound Engineering and Music Technology at the Sound Training Centre in Dublin Ireland before beginning his PhD studies in 2004. In the intervening years, he worked a multitude of odd jobs (as holders of bachelors degrees in liberal arts are apt to do), including: video game tester, beekeeper, jingle writer, zipper counter, futon maker, insurance salesman, web designer, writer, folk musician, radio comedian, and cartoon voice-over artist . He supplied one of the lead voices for the feature length animated film The Ugly Duckling and Me which will be released in 2007. Justin enjoys trying to learn foreign languages - he has succeeded with Swedish and Dutch, and has taken a stab at German and French - currently he is working on Japanese. Justin has been fascinated by marine mammals since his childhood; adopting a humpback whale named Stub when he was 8, a picture of whom hung above his bed for many years. Through the study of psychology, Justin found a way to combine his love of languages and language with his interest in marine mammal behavior. He is currently investigating how echolocation use may be related to a dolphin's ability to comprehend referential signaling - an important building block for complex communication systems and an indispensable component of human language.